Terms pertaining to body as a whole
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
Help!
|
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RUQ | right upper quadrant
🗑
|
||||
| LUG | left upper quadrant
🗑
|
||||
| RLQ | right lower quadrant
🗑
|
||||
| LLQ | left lower quadrant
🗑
|
||||
| hypochondriac region | upper right and left regions beheath the ribs.
🗑
|
||||
| epigastric region | upper middle region above the stomach
🗑
|
||||
| lumbar region | middle right and left regions near the waist
🗑
|
||||
| inguinal region | lower right and left regions near the groin. (aka iliac regions)
🗑
|
||||
| hypogastric region | lower middle region below the umbilical region.
🗑
|
||||
| abdomin/o | abdomen
🗑
|
||||
| adip/o | fat
🗑
|
||||
| -ose | pertaining to; full of
🗑
|
||||
| anter/o | front
🗑
|
||||
| -ior | pertaining to
🗑
|
||||
| bol/o | to cast (throw)
🗑
|
||||
| ana- | up
🗑
|
||||
| -ism | process
🗑
|
||||
| anabolism | the process of casting up (building up)
🗑
|
||||
| cervic/o | neck (of the body or the uterus)
🗑
|
||||
| chondr/o | cartilage
🗑
|
||||
| chondroma | tumor of cartilage (it is a benign tumor)
🗑
|
||||
| chondrosarcoma | malignant flesh tumor of cartilage
🗑
|
||||
| chrom/o | color
🗑
|
||||
| -somes | bodies
🗑
|
||||
| coccyg/o | coccyx
🗑
|
||||
| crani/o | skull
🗑
|
||||
| craniotomy | incision of the skull
🗑
|
||||
| cyt/o | cell
🗑
|
||||
| -plasm | formation
🗑
|
||||
| cytoplasm | content formation of a cell
🗑
|
||||
| dist/o | far, distant
🗑
|
||||
| dors/o | back portion of the body
🗑
|
||||
| hist/o | tissue
🗑
|
||||
| ili/o | ilium
🗑
|
||||
| inguin/o | groin
🗑
|
||||
| kary/o | nucleus
🗑
|
||||
| -type | classification or picture
🗑
|
||||
| karyotype | picture of the nucleus
🗑
|
||||
| later/o | side
🗑
|
||||
| lumb/o | lower back
🗑
|
||||
| medi/o | middle
🗑
|
||||
| nucle/o | nucleus
🗑
|
||||
| nucleic | pertaining to the nucleus
🗑
|
||||
| pelv/o | hip; pelvic cavity
🗑
|
||||
| poster/o | back; behind
🗑
|
||||
| proxim/o | nearest
🗑
|
||||
| sacr/o | sacrum
🗑
|
||||
| sarc/o | flesh
🗑
|
||||
| spin/o | spine; backbrone
🗑
|
||||
| thel/o | nipple
🗑
|
||||
| thorac/o | chest
🗑
|
||||
| thoracotomy | incision of the chest
🗑
|
||||
| trache/o | trachea; windpipe
🗑
|
||||
| unbilic/o | navel, umbilicus
🗑
|
||||
| ventr/o | belly side of the body
🗑
|
||||
| vertebr/o | vertebrae; backbones
🗑
|
||||
| viscer/o | internal organs
🗑
|
||||
| ana- | up
🗑
|
||||
| cata- | down
🗑
|
||||
| catabolism | process of breaking down cells (to release energy)
🗑
|
||||
| epi- | above
🗑
|
||||
| inter- | between
🗑
|
||||
| meta- | change
🗑
|
||||
| -eal | pertaining to
🗑
|
||||
| -iac | pertaining to
🗑
|
||||
| -ior | pertaining to
🗑
|
||||
| -ism | pertaining to
🗑
|
||||
| -ose | pertaining to; full of
🗑
|
||||
| -plasm | formation
🗑
|
||||
| -somes | bodies
🗑
|
||||
| -type | picture; classification
🗑
|
Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Created by:
christajtodd
Popular Medical sets